×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

working/mating 2 perpendicular sketches?

working/mating 2 perpendicular sketches?

working/mating 2 perpendicular sketches?

(OP)
Hello

How can I use the intersection of two lines on  another sketch in a perpendicular plane?

Or something related...

I've posted a very simple file, with two perpendicular non-concentric circles.
How can I get the circles to cross (pierce) each other?

If a try to resize one of the circles by dragging it with the mouse I'm not allowed to choose a point on the other plane as my target.
http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=2161d302-d233-4a2f-bae8-eb33a8eb56b9&file=twocircles.SLDPRT

I've also tried by using mates and by converting entities, with no luck.
 

RE: working/mating 2 perpendicular sketches?

(OP)
I know I could use 3DSketch but it does have many limitations (Such as revolving curves).

I'd like it to see Solidworks fully working on 3D and not on projections on planes.
 

RE: working/mating 2 perpendicular sketches?

Add a horizontal construction line from the centre of the Sketch3 circle, then use the end point to Pierce the Sketch1 circle.

RE: working/mating 2 perpendicular sketches?

(OP)
I've tried adding construction lines but if they are on a different sketch (at a different plane) I can not select them from the other one.
I don't want to use 3Dskecth because with it one can only use some SolidWorks functionality

RE: working/mating 2 perpendicular sketches?

(OP)
Do you think any other of the bigs (ProE, Inventor, Catia, NX...) is better/easier to do this kind of things?

 

RE: working/mating 2 perpendicular sketches?

(OP)
Could you explain the shortest way to do it, please?
 

RE: working/mating 2 perpendicular sketches?

See my first post.

RE: working/mating 2 perpendicular sketches?

(OP)
OK, thanks
It works,
I guess is not so easy if the planes are not perpendiculars or coincident with the main planes.

RE: working/mating 2 perpendicular sketches?

(OP)
I was trying to use the "coincident" mate with both circles, I don't know why it doesn't work.  The "pierce" option must be used instead, as you said.

RE: working/mating 2 perpendicular sketches?

(OP)
I've seen that one of my problems is that sometimes I open a sketch and then all sketches created later get unavailable and then I can't select anything at them.

And it seems that one can not resize any of the circles in 3D, you need to edit one of the sketches.

RE: working/mating 2 perpendicular sketches?

SW is history based, so yes, if you edit a feature created at one point in time, anything created after it will not be available.

To be able to resize any sketch features (2D or 3D) without entering edit mode, the sketch elements need to be dimensioned. Double clicking the sketch (or feature) in the Feature Manager will then expose the dimensions for selection.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources